• On today's episode: China criticized the Trump administration after it banned Harvard from enrolling international students; Iran and the US will continue negotiations; stocks are mixed overseas; the latest from the Kim Kardashian heist trial; and Kermit talks to the graduates from the Universit of Maryland.
• Judge blocks Trump administration's mass layoffs at the Education Department.
• Senate votes to block California’s rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.
• House Republicans pass Trump's big bill of tax breaks and program cuts after all-night session.
• Police respond to shooting outside CIA headquarters.
• Court papers say suspect in embassy killings declared 'I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.'
• Thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck have been adopted.
• A music talent agency says 3 employees died on a plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood.
• Jury convicts New York-Paris flight stowaway who slipped past gate agents.
• Tennessee man is executed for killing his wife and her 2 sons, 3 years after last-minute reprieve.
• Stocks drift to a mixed close as worries about the US government's soaring debt continue to weigh.
• April home sales slow with high mortgage rates, prices, putting chill into spring buying season.
• Average rate on a US 30-year mortgage rises to 6.86%, its highest level since mid-February.
• Rapper Kid Cudi says his car was set on fire weeks after Sean 'Diddy' Combs broke into his home.
• The Thunder move two wins away from the NBA Finals, the Nuggets elevate their interim coach, the Panthers earn another blowout win in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a coaching hire and a front office change in the NHL and a hot start on the golf course in Fort Worth.
• Team Penske focused on moving forward after shock firings following Indy 500 cheating scandal.
• French Open 2025: The certainty Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek brought to Paris is missing now.
• College Football Playoff shifts to straight seeding model, no automatic byes for top league champs.
• In New Zealand's Parliament, a battered cookie tin decides which new laws get debated.
• Philippines condemns Chinese coast guard's use of water cannon on a research vessel.

—The Associated Press

About this program

Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.

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